Jammu, April 25 -- Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Saturday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the expansion of Indian Railways in Jammu and Kashmir, asserting that it is due to the PM's leadership that it has become possible to lay a network of track across the Union Territory in today's times.

Addressing the media, Singh noted that railway expansion in the region had reached a standstill before 2014.

"Thanks to Prime Minister Modi, today, because of him, it has become possible to lay a network of railway tracks in Jammu and Kashmir. Before this government came to power in 2014, the work to bring Kashmir onto the railway tracks had almost come to a halt. The train, which reached Jammu in 1972 took 50 to 60 years to reach Katra,...